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Bruce Banner and I have precious little in common. I’m not interested in his solo comics or movies, and he wouldn’t make it onto a list of my favorite Marvel characters. If we’re going by the Marvel Cinematic Universe, OK sure, Mark Ruffalo is adorable and he and I both have brown eyes and brown…

I’m finding it difficult to get a handle on this post, because it’s a lot of telling, and not a lot of showing. It’s coming out clinical, and not emotional, I think because both Chris and I shut down after the appointment with Dr. L, preparing ourselves for further disappointment the following week. We were…

Weirdly, this feels like my most vulnerable post yet. Probably because it focuses on my inner workings, and not external awfulness going on around me. Welcome to a piece of my headspace. Sometimes I feel like I just owned the world, and sometimes I feel like the world’s biggest failure. I suspect that’s what it…